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Author : John H. Pryor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Mediterranean Region
ISBN : OCLC:471749338
Author : John Pryor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:868635413
Author : John H. Pryor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1992-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0521428920
A study of the technological limitations of maritime traffic in the Mediterranean, seen in conjunction with the geographical conditions within which it operated.
Author : John M. Collins
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 643 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9781597973595
This book covers many topics that are crucial to military planning but often receive only passing mention in histories or briefings. Collins, a former Army officer, stresses land geography, but he does not stint oceans, the atmosphere, or interplanetary space. His discussions of urban areas are too brief, given the increasing amount of large-scale violence in cities since the end of World War II.
Author : Fraser MacDonald,Charles W.J. Withers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317128830
Focusing on aspects of the functioning of technology, and by looking at instruments and at instrumental performance, this book addresses the epistemological questions arising from examining the technological bases to geographical exploration and knowledge claims. Questions of geography and exploration and technology are addressed in historical and contemporary context and in different geographical locations and intellectual cultures. The collection brings together scholars in the history of geographical exploration, historians of science, historians of technology and, importantly, experts with curatorial responsibilities for, and museological expertise in, major instrument collections. Ranging in their focus from studies of astronomical practice to seismography, meteorological instruments and rockets, from radar to the hand-held barometer, the chapters of this book examine the ways in which instruments and questions of technology - too often overlooked hitherto - offer insight into the connections between geography and exploration.
Author : Patrick O'Sullivan,Patrick Michael O'Sullivan,Jesse W. Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015005415461
Author : Douglas R. Caldwell,Judy Ehlen,Russell S. Harmon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402031052
A selection of papers on a broad range of military topics ranging from the strategic perspective, through analyses of historical battles at the operational and tactical levels, to the use of advanced technologies applied to present-day military problems.
Author : Stanley D. Brunn,Susan L. Cutter,James W. Harrington
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1402018711
This volume celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Association of American Geographers. It recognizes the importance of technologies in the production of geographical knowledge. The original chapters presented here examine technologies that have affected geography as a discipline. Among the technologies discussed are cartography, the camera, aerial photography, computers, and other computer-related tools. The contributors address the impact of such technologies on geography and society, disciplinary inquiries into the social/technological interfaces, high-tech as well low-tech societies, and applications of technologies to the public and private sectors. Geography and Technology can be used as a textbook in geography courses and seminars investigating specific technologies and the impacts of technologies on society and policy. It will also be useful for those in the humanities, social, policy and engineering sciences, planning and development fields where technology questions are becoming of increased importance. Geography clearly has much to learn from other disciplines and fields about geography/technology linkages; others can likewise learn much from us.
Author : Sarah Kristina Danielsson,Frank Jacob
Publisher : Brill Schoningh
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Geopolitics
ISBN : 3506783777
Papers from a conference held 2015 at CUNY Graduate Center in New York City.
Author : William Kelleher Storey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : 1442226803
In a compact but comprehensive and clear narrative, this book explores the First World War from a genuinely global perspective. Putting a human face on the war, William Kelleher Storey takes into account individual decisions and experiences as well as environmental and technological factors, such as food, geography, manpower, and weapons. With reorganized chapters designed to enhance classroom use, this edition brings the text up to date with current scholarship and new maps for the Great War's centennial. The author argues that the Great War profoundly changed the ways in which people imagined the landscape around them and thought about technology and the environment. Before the war, Europe and its colonies generally regarded industrial technology as an instrument of modernity; the landscape existed to be conquered, divided, and ruled. During and after the war, the costs of conquest became much higher, raising significant doubts about the value of progress. Soldiers experienced profound personal degradation, physical injuries, and mental collapse in the midst of nightmarish, technologically induced environmental conditions, which they vividly remembered when they formed new identities in the postwar world. Although people did not abandon thoughts of technological advance, after the war they had a keener sense of modernity's costs. Without neglecting traditional themes, Storey's deft interweaving of the role of environment and technology enriches our understanding of the social, political, and military history of the war, not only in Europe, but worldwide.
Author : John B. Hattendorf
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Mediterranean Region
ISBN : 9780714680545
This volume explores the themes of maritime strategy and naval power in the Mediterranean: migration, the environment, technology, economic power, international politics and law, and calculations of naval strength and diplomatic manoeuvre.
Author : Alex Roland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190605407
The war instinct is part of human nature, but the means to fight war depend on technology. Alex Roland traces the co-evolution of technology and warfare from the Stone Age to the age of cyberwar, describing the inventions that changed the direction of warfare throughout history: from fortified walls, the chariot, battleships, and the gunpowder revolution to bombers, rockets, improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and nuclear weapons. In the twenty-first century, new technologies continue to push warfare in unexpected directions, while warfare stimulates stunning new technological advances. Yet even now, the newest and best technology cannot guarantee victory. Brimming with dramatic narratives of battles and deep insights into military psychology, this book shows that although military technologies keep changing at great speed, the principles and patterns behind them abide.
Author : Rachel Woodward
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781786438874
A Research Agenda for Military Geographies explores how military activities and phenomena are shaped by geography, and how geographies are in turn shaped by military practices. A variety of future research agendas are mapped out, examining the questions faced by geographers when studying the military and its effects.
Author : Peter J. Hugill
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801851262
In 1431 the Portuguese navigator Velho set sail into the Atlantic, establishing a trade route to the Azores and marking the beginning of commerce with the West as we know it today. Equipped with reliable maps and instruments for open-ocean navigation and highly sea-worthy, three-masted, cannon-armed ships, Portugal soon dominated the Atlantic trade routes - until the diffusion of Portuguese technologies to wealthier polities made Holland the eventual successor, owing to its geographic position and its immense commercial fleet.
Author : Rhoads Murphey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135365912
A study of the Ottoman military machine and its successes in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East in a period when they were feared by western European states and the focus of much military concern. The book is intended for undergraduate courses in early modern history, Ottoman history, history of the Middle East and North Africa, and for military historians.